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WHO IS THIS GUY?

“I just obey the cameras.”

AND HE WAS MAKING “SLANTY EYES” TOO

“Those Oriental people work like dogs. They work their hearts out. They are workers non-stop. They sleep beside their machines. That’s why they are successful in life. I’m telling you, Oriental people, they’re slowly taking over. … They’re hard, hard workers.”
—Rob Ford, Ontario city council

A HORRIBLE AFFLICTION

Weblogs are designed for those with NADD. The web digested into short little blurbs of information. NADD heaven. My guess would be that the population of regular webloggers is mostly NADD-afflicted. Otherwise, they’d be writing books… not paragraphs… at random times of the day… always.
NADD

YOUR NEW BICYCLE

… is Barack Obama!

FOR DIPSOMANIAC CONSERVATIVES

Via email from the Republican National Committee:

Meet Maxine, the newest member of the Republican National Committee.
Embroidered with the official logo of the RNC, Maxine proudly shows off her allegiance to the Republican Party’s principles of lower taxes, a strong national defense, limited government and personal responsibility.
Maxine is a wonderful plush toy available for a limited […]

NORTH BY NORTHWEST: A FILM ABOUT A SUIT

His tie is still pressed and the shirt is white, even the collar and cuffs. You cannot violate the white shirt of the Sixties. You might kill me but you will never kill this shirt.
Cary Grant’s Suit (Todd McEwen in Granta)
Fun fact: Todd McEwen wrote my favourite novel. Of course it’s out of print.
Update: All […]

PRESIDENTIAL LOOT

An Indian lawmaker, Nirmal Deshpande, gave the US president perhaps the least expensive present of his time in office: The yellow linen scroll with Gandhi’s warnings, with an estimated worth of seven dollars — or one per sin.
They are “politics without principle,” “wealth without work,” “pleasure without conscience,” “knowledge without character,” “commerce without morality,” “science […]

HEADLINE OF THE DAY

Here’s hoping the News-Gazette headline writers will lay off the hard boozin’, at least until after work.

GODS FAIL TO APPEAR IN COURT

A judge in India has summoned two Hindu gods, Ram and Hanuman, to help resolve a property dispute.
Judge Sunil Kumar Singh in the eastern state of Jharkhand has issued adverts in newspapers asking the gods to “appear before the court personally”.
The gods have been asked to appear before the court on Tuesday, after the judge […]

EEL CHRISTMAS TREE, EEL CHRISTMAS TREE

Electric eel used to power Xmas lights (Mainichi Daily News)